Inventor · Sammamish, WA, US

Stacey Spears

18Patents
10h-index
24Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 12, 2004 → Feb 23, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8270473B2 Motion based dynamic resolution multiple bit rate video encoding Electricity 128 Active
US8311115B2 Video encoding using previously calculated motion information Electricity 114 Active
US8396114B2 Multiple bit rate video encoding using variable bit rate and dynamic resolution for adaptive video streaming Electricity 77 Active
US8243797B2 Regions of interest for quality adjustments Electricity 36 Active
US8494231B2 Face recognition in video content Physics 35 Active
US7158668B2 Image processing using linear light values and other image processing improvements Electricity 23 Expired
US8189933B2 Classifying and controlling encoding quality for textured, dark smooth and smooth video content Electricity 17 Active
US8750390B2 Filtering and dithering as pre-processing before encoding Electricity 17 Active
US8705616B2 Parallel multiple bitrate video encoding to reduce latency and dependences between groups of pictures Electricity 16 Active
US8576908B2 Regions of interest for quality adjustments Electricity 12 Active
US7561206B2 Detecting progressive video Electricity 9 Active
US7308151B2 Strategies for producing quantized image information Electricity 9 Expired
US8842185B1 HDMI image quality analysis Electricity 6 Active
US9924200B2 Adaptive noise reduction engine for streaming video Electricity 4 Active
US8533597B2 Strategies for configuring media processing functionality using a hierarchical ordering of control parameters Physics 2 Active
US7400762B2 Strategies for performing scaling operations on image information Electricity 1 Expired
US10129312B2 Dynamic video streaming based on viewer activity Electricity 0 Active
US10542291B2 Adaptive noise reduction engine for streaming video Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.